prosopopoeia

[proh-soh-puh-pee-uh]

pro·so·po·poe·ia

[proh-soh-puh-pee-uh]
noun Rhetoric.
1.
personification, as of inanimate things.
2.
a figure of speech in which an imaginary, absent, or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting.
Also, pro·so·po·pe·ia.


Origin:
1555–65; < Latin prosōpopoeia < Greek prosōpopoiía personification, equivalent to prósōpo(n) face, person + poi(eîn) to make + -ia -ia

pro·so·po·poe·ial, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To prosopopoeia

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Prosopopoeia has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.
Collins
World English Dictionary
prosopopoeia or prosopopeia (ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə)
 
n
1.  rhetoric another word for personification
2.  a figure of speech that represents an imaginary, absent, or dead person speaking or acting
 
[C16: via Latin from Greek prosōpopoiia dramatization, from prosōpon face + poiein to make]
 
prosopopeia or prosopopeia
 
n
 
[C16: via Latin from Greek prosōpopoiia dramatization, from prosōpon face + poiein to make]
 
prosopo'poeial or prosopopeia
 
adj
 
prosopo'peial or prosopopeia
 
adj

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT